Tag: antidepressants and unemployment
What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the...
If antidepressants are effective, and people with depression are more likely to be prescribed them, then you would expect the consequences of depression to start to lessen. One of those consequences, according to government statistics, is being out of work. But what we see is quite the opposite: Increasing use of antidepressants correlates with increased numbers of people with depression who are out of work and claiming benefits, and increasingly on a long-term basis. And this is at a time when disability due to other medical conditions has fallen.
Mental Health Disability Claims Continue to Climb
According to new research by Joanna Moncrieff and SebastiĆ£o Viola, mental health problems have become the leading cause of disability claims in the UK. While the overall number of claims for other conditions has decreased by 35%, claims related to āmental disordersā have increased 103% since 1995.